The rank of the US largest banks by assets

The US banks continue to play an important role in the global economy, despite the increased weight and importance of banks of other countries in the last years, such as Chinese banks.

In this work, we are going to present the rank of the 52 largest banks in USA by total assets, which still remains today, one of the most widely used indicators for comparing banks with each other. Let’s now see the 52 largest banks in the USA by assets in 2019.

In the top of the ranking of the largest banks in the US by assets is JP Morgan Chase with 2.7 trillion USD in assets. It is also the largest bank in terms of deposits. In the second place is Bank of America with 2.4 trillion USD in assets, followed by Citigroup with about 2 trillion USD in assets. Wells Fargo & Co is fourth and Goldman Sachs is fifth.

In the last three places of the ranking of the largest Us banks by assets there are Mizuho Americas with 47 billion USD, East West Bancorp with 43 billion USD and First Horizon National Corp. with 42 billion USD.

Rank	Name	Assets
1	JP Morgan Chase & Co	2727
2	Bank of America	2396
3	Citigroup	1988
4	Wells Fargo & Co	1923
5	Goldman Sachs	945
6	Morgan Stanley	892
7	U.S. Bancorp	482
8	PNC Financial Services Group	406
9	Toronto-Dominion Group US Holding	388
10	Bank of New York Mellon Corp.	381
11	Capital One Financial Corp.	374
12	HSBC Holdings North America	297
13	Charles Schwab Corp.	276
14	State Street Corp.	242
15	BB&T Corp.	231
16	Suntrust Banks	222
17	American Express Company	198
18	Ally Financial	181
19	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group	172
20	Fifth Third Bancorp	169
21	United Services Automobile Assoc.	168
22	Citizens Financial Group	163
23	BMO Financial Corp.	160
24	Barclays US LLC	154
25	KeyCorp	145
26	Santander Holdings USA	144
27	UBS Americas Holding	136
28	BNP Paribas USA	130
29	Credit Suisse Holdings USA	129
30	Regions Financial Corp.	128
31	Northern Trust Corp.	127
32	RBC USA Holdco Corp.	126
33	M&T Bank Corp.	122
34	Deutsche Bank USA Corp.	120
35	Discover Financial Services	111
36	Huntington Bancshares	108
37	Synchrony Financial	107
38	First Republic Bank	106
39	BBVA Compass Bancshares	92
40	Comerica Inc.	73
41	Zions Bancorp	70
42	SVB Financial Group	64
43	E*TRADE Financial Corp.	62
44	New York Community Bancorp	53
45	People’s United Financial	52
46	Popular Inc.	51
47	CIT Group	51
48	Signature Bank, NY	49
49	Synovus Financial Corp.	47
50	Mizuho Americas	47
51	East West Bancorp	43
52	First Horizon National Corp.	42

The data used in this work have been collected from the main financial sites. For all of the banks, the total assets refer to the 2019 balance sheet and are expressed in billions of USD.